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Hi,

I'm using VirtualBox 1.6.2 on Windows 2003 - 32 bit Host OS.
While creating the Virtual Machines, the maximum memory we can allocate is 2 GB.
Is it a limitation of the VirtualBox version i'm using? or it is a limitation of my 32-bit Host OS?

I have 4 GB RAM on the host machine and not running anything other than Virtual Box.. So i would like to give almost around 3.2 GB of RAM to Guest.

is it possible?

Thanks in advance.
jerry..

Use a 64bit System for use the full 4GB.

VB 2.0 can assign 3,5 GB of RAM to a VM. But never more than there is left for the Host system.

Thanks guys for the response.
i will upgrade to 2.0 and see how it goes.


jerin

Hi
I Upgraded VirtualBox to 2.0.2.
After that i can see the GUI got option to provide RAM upto 3584 MB, but when i tried, it was faining with "HostMemory Low" error.
I tried different options and found that, if i assign memory anything more than 1874, i'm getting the same error.

Any ideas guys?

Forgot to mention, i upgrded my host machine with 12 GB of RAM.
Even though it is 32 bit Windows 2003 Enterprose Edition, i have enabled PAE Switch and i can see available memory is more than 10 GB.

So there is no way, Host server can run out of memory.

We currently map all guest ram into the address space of the VBox process. As you're running a 32 bits OS, there's room for only 2-3 GB (depends on a boot setting).

To fully access up to 3.5 GB in your guest you need to run a 64 bits OS.

This will be changed in the future.